Clifton Fadiman Quotes

The more you are blessed with experience, the fuller and the more enriched you are in your craft.

Experience is everything in this league.

Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.

The thing about wisdom is you store the past in your head.

The wise man reads both books and life itself.

The longer you live and the more you learn, the more clearly you will feel the difference between the few men who are truly great and the mere virtuosi.

All experience is good experience.

You can practice to attain knowledge, but you can't practice to attain wisdom.

You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

Nobody is born wise.

With age comes wisdom.

I think with experience and age, you gain knowledge and wisdom.

What separates old from the young is experience and patience.

I have always felt that there is no substitute of experience.

With age comes acumen. With experience comes insight.

The experience of others adds to our knowledge, but not to our wisdom; that is dearer bought.

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.

Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.

That's the reason they're called lessons, because they lesson from day to day.

Judgment comes from experience and great judgment comes from bad experience.

The wise are above books.

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.

Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being.

Let no one trust so entirely to natural prudence as to persuade himself that it will suffice to guide him without help from experience.

To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.